martes, 21 de junio de 2016

My experience using blogs in the English class.

As you know, this semester we have to write every week in this blog for the English class. At the beginning I was a little afraid about write in English, because I didn’t speak it or studied since I left the school. I felt that I forgot everything that I knew and I didn’t trust in my English, so every time that I wrote something I checked it in “google translate”, to search some words that I didn’t know… maybe I used it to much, but it wasn’t to helpful because the translate was to literally, so I must check it and fix it a lot.

But time pass and I used less and less the translate… now I didn’t open it! I’m writing for myself, so I can say that I improved a lot.. I really want to learn English, so this semester I started watching “Friends” in English and without subtitles, that helps me a lot…

Wrote this blog was very funny, the subjects were always interesting… but sometimes I didn’t have time, so it stressed me, but in general this was a really good experience.

In the future, I would like to include more things about my career, more vocabulary and other kind of stuffs. I hope someday know how to write chronics and interviews in English, It would be awesome.


Definitely, English is the language of the future, so you must learn it… for this reason I will try harder and harder to become a bilingual journalist. 

Reflections over the strike

The journalism's school of the university of Chile have now six weeks on a strike. Almost every year the career suffers a strike because of the different demands of the students: a free education, a quality education and  the end of the business around the education, among others.

At an internal level, the students of my career decide to strike for the precariousness of our faculty. The university of Chile is very unjust in the distribution of its funds, it has faculties with amazing infrastructure and resources, while others (like mine) doesn't have a enough chairs, tables, places to eat, basic materials or space to work and study.

I think that the commitment of the students with the strike is very low. Last year I was fully committed with the movement but soon I realize that a lot of students vote for the strike and then doesn't participate of the programmed activities. Also there are some students that vote for the strike to delay tests and exams. With this kind of commitment I felt that it wasn't worthy to remain in Santiago, away of my family, to be part of a movement like that.

I have classmates really committed with the movement that really act thinking in change our situation for the better, but this year I chose not to participate of the strike and travel to Puerto Varas to wait the returned of the classes with my family and boyfriend, so I think that I can't talk about learnings acquired with the movement and strike of this year, however I have used the time to read and work in personal projects.

martes, 14 de junio de 2016

Non-sexist comunication: body, media and image

One of the topics that I want to develop as a future journalist is the feminism because is a subject that has been poorly treated in Chile.

In the secondary that I used to attend we never spoke about the subject and the same happens in the majority of the universities, luckily I study in a public university where every topic can be discussed and even have its own course.

For example, now Im taking a course called "Non-Sexist Communication: Body, Media and Image".

The professor that dictates the course is Cristián Cabello, every Monday at 4 pm and it's the class that I liked the most since I started my journalism's studies.

The course talks about feminism, society, social structures, femicide and heteronormative conducts, among other interesting topics.

The teacher recommended us really good texts and in the classes we see very interesting videos.

For most of the evaluations we need to redact a text about some topic: opinion columns, book reviews, autobiographical essays, etc.

I feel that since I took the course I've learned a lot and it has changed my way of think and see the world.

One of the things that I appreciate of this subject is that teach me and compels me to conveyed the knowledge of the course to other people, especially women and I think that this it's the most important thing to learn: to transmit knowledge.

Since we stopped the classes in ICEI in protest of the poorly condition of education in Chile this is definitely the subject I miss the most.

miércoles, 8 de junio de 2016

WEBQUEST 2

Part 1- Calculate your carbon footprint!

  • What’s your carbon footprint? My carbon footprint is 4.16 tonnes per year.

  • What’s the average carbon footprint of a person?  In Chile, the average carbon footprint per person is 3.87 tonnes.

 
 

Part 2 - Take these Recycling Quizzes

  •   Hand washing dishes can use up to 50% more of water than using an efficient dishwasher.
  •   Only about 8% of global energy comes from renewables.
  •  True or false? Appliances that are turned off don’t use any electricity. FALSE, Many appliances continue yo use energy for features like clocks and remote control sensors even when they are turned off.
  •   Can you make paper out of hemp? YES, is the more humane and clean option.


Part 3- Video >> Top ten tips for recycling
Watch the video and choose the best 3 tips in your opinion.

1. In my town , Puerto Varas , plastic bags are absolutely prohibited . It is a very good rule , it's amazing how you can help.So it's my first choice.

2. One of the biggest World Problems is the volume of waste. So my mother since childhood taught me to crush the trash as possible before throwing it away . 

3. Separating trash from recyclables things is very good as well , so I included in my top 3.




martes, 7 de junio de 2016

Planning study trip to London! :)

Day

Place
Entrance Fee
Tube Station
Travel Zone
Monday
10AM
The Tower of London
£23.10
Tower Hill
1

4PM
The Tate Modern Art Gallery
free
Southwark
1
Tuesday
10AM
The British Museum
Free
Tottenham Court Road
1

4PM
Science Museum
Free
South Kensington
1
Wednesday
10AM
Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum
£39
Baker Street
1

3PM
Victoria and Albert Museum
free
South Kensington
1
Thursday
10AM
London Eye
£21.20
Waterloo
1

3PM
Southbank Centre
free
Waterloo
1
Friday
10AM
Camden Market
free
Camden Town/ Chalk Farm Road
2

9PM
Camden Market
free
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Saturday
10AM
The Natural History Museum
free
South Kensington
1

9PM
Somerset House
free
Temple
1
Sunday
11AM
Kew Gardens
£14
Kew Gardens Station
3

9PM
Kew Gardens
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Total Costs
£97.30